The ending of this tale of mundane daily labour and time-wasting comes as a surprise, but it seems to mean that eventually you find you have built your own prison - by restricting all your possibilities and making terrible mistakes in your life, perhaps quite casually.
But my friend Susie thinks the ending shows that the protagonists had become beasts themselves.
Although the narrator started off as an outsider, he became one of the gang simply by behaving as they behaved, doing what they did. He was tolerant - perhaps weak, and so he shared the same fate. Scary!!
It didn't make me laugh but I enjoyed the journey.
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